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At present, there are more than 20 major titanium dioxide manufacturers in the world and about 60 factories. The total capacity of the top five global production capacity companies accounted for 70% of the world's total production capacity of titanium dioxide. Among them, the total production capacity of the five DuPont production plants is 1.08 million tons, the United States has eight production plants of 720,000 tons, Komeiji 600,000 tons, Huntsman 570,000 tons, and Klonos 430,000 tons. The highly concentrated production capacity makes titanium dioxide raw material resources, technical resources, etc. mainly in the hands of a few giants. They have the ability to produce a wide range of branded bulk products adapted to all major uses. Their manufacturing facilities are spread all over the world, and they capture the markets of paints, plastics, and paper in all regions of the world through a global sales network.
The actual industrialization of titanium dioxide in China was in the 1990s. From 2001 to 2005, the annual production capacity of titanium dioxide in China increased from 430,000 tons to 900,000 tons. The actual output increased from 290,000 tons in 2001 to 850,000 tons in 2006. According to statistics, currently there are more than 70 titanium dioxide production enterprises in China, and most of them use the sulfuric acid process. Among them, there are 27 large- and small-scale factories with a capacity of over 10,000 tons, accounting for about 77% of the country's total production. However, there are only about 5 of the actual output of more than 30,000 tons, accounting for about 27% of the country's total production.
According to foreign production experience, the sulfuric acid process has an annual production capacity of over 30,000 tons. At present, the international production capacity of sulfuric acid titanium dioxide production devices is mostly 50,000 to 100,000 tons and the minimum is 35,000 tons. The domestic backbone titanium dioxide production enterprises are generally between 15,000 and 45,000 tons, and they can achieve very few economic scales. Due to the small scale, high cost and weak technical development capability, domestic enterprises are at a disadvantage in competition with international manufacturers.
With the rapid development of China's titanium dioxide industry, and the increasingly stringent national environmental protection policies, the competitiveness of small and medium sized titanium dioxide production enterprises will gradually be lost. Industry experts believe that the rapid expansion of production scale has become the top priority for domestic titanium dioxide companies to increase their competitiveness, and it is advisable for scale companies to maintain around 10 companies.
Technological backwardness constrains industrial layout Titanium dioxide is the world's recognized king of white pigments. From industrial production methods can be divided into sulfuric acid and chlorination two. The product quality of the chlorination process is generally better than that of the sulfuric acid process, and the emission of waste by-products from production is less. Compared with the sulfuric acid process, it is a "clean" process and is the world's titanium dioxide industry development direction. DuPont company is all chlorinated titanium dioxide, and China's chlorination process is only one company, production capacity is only 15,000 tons / year. Due to the monopoly of foreign technology, domestic chlorination production technology is not yet mature, and domestic enterprises have huge technical obstacles in mastering the chlorination process.
Sulfuric acid production of titanium dioxide "three wastes" a large amount of production, affected by environmental protection, some companies have been shut down or implementation of relocation and relocation. In recent years, a number of titanium dioxide projects that have been established in various regions have been terminated or put on hold because they did not pass environmental protection evaluations. In particular, titanium dioxide has been included in the "two high and one capital" product, the export tax rebate rate has dropped from 13% to 0, and with the continuous appreciation of the renminbi, it is difficult to maintain the export-oriented low-grade products.
At the same time, the domestic grade of titanium dioxide products is at a disadvantage, especially in the rutile type and special titanium dioxide for chemical fiber. From a product structure point of view, the current global rutile products accounted for an absolute share, while domestic companies are mainly producing low-grade anatase titanium dioxide, and currently there are only 13 manufacturers that can produce rutile titanium dioxide products.
The main raw material for the production of titanium dioxide is titanium concentrate. Although the reserves of titanium resources in China are relatively abundant, there are not many high-grade titanium resources. During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†period, according to China's total titanium dioxide forecast, it needs to import 4.4 million tons of titanium concentrate or 2.8 million tons of high-titanium slag from abroad as a supplement to the titanium resource gap. Titanium resources are non-renewable strategic resources. Due to the long-term low-level development of China's titanium dioxide enterprises, resources are wasted.
Scale-up to promote industrial upgrading From the sales price of rutile titanium dioxide products, the price of foreign products is generally higher than the domestic similar products by 3500 ~ 6,000 yuan / ton. At present, the domestic manufacturers of rutile products sell at 14200 ~ 15500 yuan / ton, while foreign products sell at 17700 ~ 21500 yuan / ton. Due to the lack of large-scale production in China, chemical fiber titanium dioxide is mostly dependent on imports, and the price is as high as 25,000 yuan/ton. Due to the fact that the quality and price of foreign products are all in line with domestic products, their products are at the top of the domestic market, and the targeted users are also the high-grade paint industries with the highest quality requirements. The domestic manufacturers are mainly in the low-price segment market, mainly for industries with medium or low quality requirements.
At present, the demand growth of titanium dioxide in China, especially rutile titanium dioxide, is far higher than the international average growth rate, and continues to maintain a strong growth momentum. It is expected that the global demand for titanium dioxide will increase to 5.3 million tons in 2009, and the domestic market demand will reach 1.2 million tons or more.
Under the circumstances of good market expectations, domestic manufacturers are adopting new technologies, new processes, and new equipment. They are now expanding their production scale, and some manufacturers of low-grade titanium dioxide are also actively researching and developing and transforming into high-grade rutile titanium dioxide products. The sustainable development path of large-scale, resource-saving, high-end quality, specialization of species, integration of upstream and downstream, and clean environment have become the consensus of the industry, and this trend will surely bring about the upgrading of the titanium dioxide industry. Strong shuffle, in order to improve the overall competitiveness of the industry.
Titanium Dioxide Industry Upgrading Still Needs Strong Reshuffling
In recent years, China's titanium dioxide industry has developed rapidly, but at the same time it has also exposed many problems, mainly driven by blindly expanding production capacity driven by profits. The overall backwardness of technology, high proportion of small-scale enterprises with high energy consumption and serious pollution has led to low levels in the industry. Low-tech, low-price competition is fierce, and there is a serious waste of limited titanium concentrate resources. In order to achieve industrial upgrading, China's titanium dioxide must be reshuffled to form economies of scale in order to truly synchronize with the world.